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Mar 29 • 13 tweets • 5 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
"Something monstrous is taking shape in America.... it exhibits the synergy of state and corporate power that is the hallmark of fascism..."

Behold this new & brilliant 8-part essay on the Censorship Industrial Complex by @Jacob__Siegel @tabletmag !

tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
"By conflating the anti-establishment politics of domestic populists with acts of war by foreign enemies, it justified turning weapons of war against Americans citizens. It turned the public arenas where social and political life take place into surveillance traps and targets for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"What we are seeing now, in the revelations exposing the inner workings of the state-corporate censorship regime, is only the end of the beginning. The United States is still in the earliest stages of a mass mobilization that aims to harness every sector of society under a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"A state organized on the principle that it exists to protect the sovereign rights of individuals, is being replaced by a digital leviathan that wields power through opaque algorithms and the manipulation of digital swarms. It resembles the Chinese system of social credit and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"In a technical or structural sense, the censorship regime’s aim is not to censor or to oppress, but to rule. That’s why the authorities can never be labeled as guilty of disinformation. Not when they lied about Hunter Biden’s laptops, not when they claimed that the lab leak was… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This amazing new essay is further proof that we are entering a Golden Age of independent media.

It gives me hope that many others are waking up to the threat of the Censorship Industrial Complex.

Now, we must tear it down and investigate how it emerged.

LFG!🔥🔥🔥
Holy smokes, @tabletmag even created a "Disinformation Dictionary

Genius

tabletmag.com/sections/news/…
"The false yet foundational claim that Russia hacked the 2016 election provided a justification—just like the claims about weapons of mass destruction that triggered the Iraq War—to plunge America into a wartime state of exception. With the normal rules of constitutional… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"The fight against ISIS morphed into the fight against Trump and “Russian collusion,” which morphed into the fight against disinformation. But those were just branding changes; the underlying technological infrastructure and ruling-class philosophy, which claimed the right to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
There are so many excellent insights in this piece I can't help but to keep quoting it. This connects some dots:

"The secret FISA warrant that allowed U.S. security agencies to begin spying on the Trump campaign was based on the Steele dossier, a partisan hatchet job paid for by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
"Twitter had the chance to stop the Hamilton 68 hoax before it got out of hand, yet chose not to. Why? The answer can be seen in the emails sent by a Twitter executive named Emily Horne, who advised against calling out the scam. Twitter had a smoking gun showing that the Alliance… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
YES EMPHATICALLY YES

"The war on terror was a dismal failure that ended with the Taliban returning to power in Afghanistan. It also became deeply unpopular with the public. Why, then, would Americans choose to empower the leaders and sages of that war to be the stewards of an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Well, outstanding essay and outstanding ending. Please read the whole thing. My excerpts above can't do it justice

tabletmag.com/sections/news/…

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Michael Shellenberger Profile picture
Mar 30
"Biden & his team colluded with social media to censor *truthful* info on a scale never before seen.... The FBI planted false info to deceive social media into censoring Hunter Biden laptop... FBI had a 50% success rate in getting info censored." — Sen. @Eric_Schmitt
"As a result of collusion btwn social media companies, CDC and NIH, American citizens, scientists, and journalists were censored & de-platformed for their valid concerns about lockdowns, masks, and vaccines...while deceitful voices like Fauci were elevated." @AGJeffLandry
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Mar 30
At Biden’s “Summit for Democracy,” US allies in Europe demanded that Facebook censor “false narratives” and news that would “weaken our support to Ukraine.”

Facebook agreed.

This is totalitarianism.

nytimes.com/live/2023/03/2…
We have launched a campaign to expose and shut down the totalitarian, taxpayer-funded Censorship Industrial Complex

censorshipindustrialcomplex.org
Top Facebook censor, Ben Nimmo, Head of Global Threat Intelligence for Facebook, was the technical lead for censorship at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab. He was employed by Graphika in the fall of 2020, and worked in NATO information operations.
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Mar 28
Fauci says “I can’t, as a scientist, ignore the historical perspective” that HIV came from the wild, and thus that Covid might have too. In fact, a good scientist would seek to disconfirm one’s experiences & biases. Instead, he sought to reinforce them.

nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opi…
Anybody who says, “I represent science,” is anti-science. Science is a collective process by individuals who disagree. It is always provisional, always changing, and never represented by a single person. Fauci is arrogant, dogmatic, & authoritarian.

axios.com/2021/11/28/fau…
This is anti-science: “Our main work over the last couple weeks has been focused on trying to disprove any type of lab theory,” said a researcher, Kristian Andersen.

nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opi…
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Mar 28
While ⁦@mtaibbi⁩ & I were testifying before Congress on the weaponization of the federal government, an IRS agent showed up at his house. What an amazing coincidence wsj.com/articles/irs-m…
“When did the IRS start to dis­patch agents for sur­prise house calls?. If the IRS wants to au­dit a re­turn, it sched­ules a meet­ing at the agent’s of­fice. It doesn’t drop by unan­nounced.”
“The cu­ri­ous tim­ing of this visit, on the heels of the FTC de­mand that Twit­ter turn over names of jour­nal­ists, raises ques­tions about po­ten­tial in­tim­i­da­tion, and Mr. Jor­dan is right to want to see doc­u­ments and com­mu­ni­ca­tions re­lat­ing to the Taibbi visit.”
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Mar 27
The evidence is now overwhelming that recent panics around climate, race, and sex — the mass desire to conform to a strict moral (Woke) code — stem from a) the acute need of liberal secular people for purpose, b) rising loneliness, and c) mass anxiety created by social media.
Over the last several years, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States has failed public.substack.com/p/why-wokeism-…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And yet many Americans would be surprised to learn any of the above information; some would reject it outright as false. Consider that, despite the decline in police killings of African Americans, the share of the public which said police violence is a serious or extremely… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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“Next time you’re wondering how Salem came to be consumed by hysteria, watch the clips of Posie’s persecution. This is how it happens. This is how fear of witches can overrule reason and unleash the darkest passions of the mob.” @spikedonline

“And what is Parker’s crime? What did this witch do? She said, ‘A woman is an adult human female’. That’s it. Parker, whose real name is Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, is well known for her criticism of the ideology of transgenderism. She thinks a man never spectator.co.uk/article/the-sh…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The events in Auckland should be a wake-up call for liberals everywhere. We glimpsed the iron fist of authoritarianism that lurks in the velvet glove of ‘Be Kind’. The misogynistic streak in trans extremism is undeniable now. Watch enraged men kicking down metal barriers so that… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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